Welcome To Hell

Grace coughs up a petal on the way to Erid and the realization hits him like a freight train. He's in love with Rocky, it seems to be unrequited, and he's floating in a box in the middle of space. Rocky immediately notices Grace coughed up something and is worried so Grace tries to brush it off, but as Grace keeps coughing more and more, coughing up more petals that turn into flowers that then have stems and leave Grace's mouth sticky with blood, Rocky frets even more. Grace tries to tell him it's just a human problem and not to worry about it, but Grace is freaking out. Obviously he can't get the surgery, so his only options are to tell Rocky, and potentially make his best friend and only companion in the vacuum of space uncomfortable or hate him, or to die. He can't die, he can't leave Rocky alone after he's already spent 46 years alone. As Grace gets sicker Rocky gets more and more distraught and finally Grace confesses and then he's able to take his first deep breath in weeks.

That’s cause Rocky and Adrian kind of see Grace and Simon as pebbles.

Not in a condescending way, Rocky literally helped Grace save the stars, but in a ‘your life span is so short compared to mine that I can’t help but see you as a kid cause you’re 40 and you guys live to 100 at max? You guys are kids, why did they send kids to space?’

Grace and Simon crying a bunch doesn’t help their case either.

So when they picked up this blood soaked Simon who pushed himself into the farthest corner of med at while begging for his life, all Rocky can think of is Grace telling him when he was begging for his life back on earth and now parental mode kicked in cause the man just looks like the pebbles who would hide themselves behind their parents legs on their first day of school.

So he starts trilling a lullaby his own mother would doing to him when he was younger while Grace started to talk to the new human.

Then they get to know each other and Rocky realizes that Simon is as self sacrificing as Grace and it’s freaking Rocky out cause the man is refusing to eat cause of some stupid reasoning of ‘he doesn’t deserve it’ so now Rocky has to sit and watch Simon eat cause he’s not letting his other leaky space blob starve to death.

Don’t get me started on Rocky learning about the C.O.I.

Rocky kind of has it out for Eva cause she sent Grace on a one way death trip, even though said death trip lead to them meeting he’s still mad at her. But oh. Oh he’s pissed at the C.O.I.

Cause Simon’s loyal, nice, loves cuddling wether it’s Grace or Rocky, great at fixing stuff, an excellent pilot, and really good at keeping the plants on the ship alive and they send him to his death in a metal box that was very much poisoning him?

Sure he’s killed people but everyone makes mistakes.

Plus Simon makes Grace so happy, and that’s all Rocky wants. For his leaky space blobs to be happy and healthy. Which is why when they get to Erid he’s gonna make sure they have everything they could ever want and things they didn’t even know they wanted.

(Also he did see them press their disgusting mouth parts together and he’ll ask about that later he’s still trying to get Simon to take the damm temporary prosthetic arm he made him)

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simon grace mate, question

i wouldn’t call it that

simon care about grace <…> want to make sure grace is not hurt, question

yeah, yeah, buddy. of course.

good good then simon watch grace sleep. rocky busy busy with ship recovery and watching own mate adrian so simon watch grace sleep so he is safe

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question

yeah, buddy. all night. straight on until morning. uh. promise. <clears throat> promise, statement.

bonus:

good good because grace can die in sleep statement

he what—

grace, poking his head through the door: Not more than a typical human. Rock, cheese and crackers, stop telling people that.

Damian: I am the superior Robin, the blood so-

Dick, getting sick of it, picks Damian up and hurls him across the Batcave: Finally, some peace and quiet.

Jason does it with Tim the most. Anytime Tim even slightly disagrees with Jason, he'll just pick him up by the top of his cape, and just throw him across rooftops.

Tim: You're wrong! You must be colourblind. It's obviously purple!

Jason: Its blue. You have one more chance to disagree.

Tim: What? It's purple?

Batman, who was on a stakeout a few allies away, sees Tim flying across Crime Alley: what

Jason is the only one who is immune. None of the other batkids are strong enough to pick him up, much less throw him around. Until Jon started hanging out with the Bats more, because of Damian, he picked it up to.

Jon: Damian, I'm not gonna throw your older brother off a building! I want your family to like me!

Damian: Jonathan, I assure you, the family would very much appreciate it if Todd finally got a taste of what he's been inflicting on us for years.

Jon: But then Jason won't like me!

Bruce and Hal like each other, okay? They're each funny! And okay, Bruce is handsome, smells nice, a gentleman... so maybe Hal is freakishly in love.

One thing Bruce consistently talks about is his babies. That man loves his babies so much. Hal respects that Bruce can never show him pictures, but his descriptions of the kids paint a really sweet image of Bruce's "civilian" family

"My eldest, Dick! Oh yes, he just mastered a new technique with his gymnastics class! He's very proud of it! And my daughter, Cass, is cast for a solo in her next ballet, I'm so excited to see it. Tim loves the new videogame you suggested for his console, he just can't leave it! Damian thinks the shirt you gave me was nice. Oh, and I cannot forget mentioning my Jason! Yes! My little boy was so clingy today. He won't let me leave to go on this date! He's sick as of last night. Oh, my poor baby..."

Hal is so sick with cuteness aggression, so when things get serious between Bruce and him, he insists that he MUST meet his kids.

Well...

He did not expect Nightwing to drop hell on him, like full on knee-drop from the stratosphere. His name is Dick Grayson, and he is part of a gymnastics class!!!...... as the teacher.

And Cass is, in fact, a ballet student.... THE SENIORS DANCE COMPANY..... she is also batgirl and she's the few creatures to remind Hal of what fear is.

Tim is Red Robin, and yes he thanked Hal personally for the videogame suggestion, before promptly threatening to castrate Hal if he ever breaks his dad's heart.

Damian was ALMOST forgivable. He's very much baby-sized. But he's also Robin and an Al-Ghul and Bruce get your child away from me he's threatening to duel me for your hand- STOP LAUGHING.

Jason? Jason is the worst. Bruce made him out to be this clingy, soppy wet cat of a child that cries when left alone too long and whose biggest problems is crusts on the sides of his plate. Turns out he's the Red Hood and also 6"5 and built like a barn. He also has dry humor. And guns. Lots of it.

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Hal: You said you had 5 babies???

Bruce: Yes, 5 babies 😊

Hal: [staring at the 5 miscellaneous death threat notes he got from the trained operatives that are his boyfriend's attack dogs]

Bruce: Aww, they made you love cards! 🥹

Hal: One of this is from Dick. He says to remember to lock my door, just in case....

Bruce: He's feeling protective! 🥰

Family lore

(Yes, Dick was in full clown makeup and outfit when Tim found him in A Lonely Place of Dying.)